At the beginning of the year I had the chance to work an design my own signature shoe with DVSshoes 

Over the last few months its taken progress an now we have the finished product .

Pretty stoked on how it came out an it will be for-sale in March 2013 .

Also below are 2 video clips, 1 from my video part with VideoGrass 

an the other a clip we filmed this year for the Snowsnow .

check em out !

Shot from Whistler this year - Vernon Deck

http://www.volcom.com.au/2012/10/will-jackways-the-snow-show/

https://vimeo.com/51023502

Back in NZ & NZ Season 2012 ....

Coming back home to NZ is the best feeling after being away for months on end .
After living in Canada for most of the northern hemisphere winter , we decided to spend some time in the Coromandel before coming down to Wanaka to settle into Winter .

The Coromandel is definitely 1 of my favorite places in N.Z to hang out , its so beautiful an is a nice place to unwind  after being away, Abbys family is also from there so its great catching up with them all aswell .

The winter in Wanaka this year has been fun , not a ton of regular snow falls , but still good times as usual .

Ive just decide to throw a bunch of images on here from the last while as it probably sums up best how the last few months have been

A few highlights also were :

- Travelling to Milford sound an camping, such a beautiful place with an amazing feel  .

- Competiting in the World Heli Challenge again an winning the overall Xfactor award an a free heli trip in Alaska .

- Shooting up in Ohau , I forget how beautiful that place is an the rad terrain is .

- Hanging an filming with Antti Autti for his new movie "Relate " , hes been a blast to shred with an get to know .

Video Links :

- http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog/_/post/8251116/winners-announced-world-heli-challenge

- http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/221981/snowboarder-skier-have-heli-challenge-x-factor

- http://tvnz.co.nz/the-snow-show/s1-ep9-video-5029567

- http://www.3news.co.nz/Skiers-impressed-by-Kiwi-mountains/tabid/317/articleID/265422/Default.aspx

The 1st thing I did when i arrived home was have a surf an then sit in a natural Hot pool on the beach .

1st Broken board from surfing i ever did

Coromandel shack with backdrop

Fishing an catching snapper is good life in the Coro

Secluded beach break with golden sand .

View down to Wanaka from the freestyle day of the WHC .

Abbs blasting on the Extreme day of WHC 

Mt Albert , Extreme day location

Airing with the Cineflex heli in the background , Photo Tommy Pyatt.

Sam Smoothy begins his extreme day run.

Driving into Milford with Mighty Campers - http://www.mightycampers.co.nz/

Amazing sunset at Milford sound.

Mitre Peak 

Ohau's back drop

Ohau Reflections

Back1 of this popper

Heliboarding wedge 

Antti scoping his line 

Back up for another 1 ...sure why not .

Post season wrap .

Ive been back in N.Z for over a month now an looking back this past season was everything that good times are made from .

I lived in BC for about 4 months an although they have alot of Grey an snowy days which can be challenging to film in , they had a great snow year with tons of pow  .

I travelled around abunch , rode with different people an made some rad new friends .

Filming for VG was a real honor an truely an awesome experience  , something that Im pumped I was apart of .

The movie comes out in September , so until then here are a bunch of images from the  last few weeks filming 

I also took a few days off to film an Episode for Airtime , a TV show here in NZ

heres the Link :

VIDEO: ‘Airtime’ Episode 22 – Will Jackways Profile .

Abbs B/3 on the jump when we have lunch .

Cliff Scooping 

Danny Larsen from Norway , cab 7  Mt Baker 

Stevens Pass blue bird , good crew 

Natural Tree olly / Jib

Will Lavigne back 5 

Abby enjoying the views over Squamish BC

Natty Back 3

Silhouette wedge 

Spinning into the Whistler back drop .

French canadian rail destroyer Phil Jacques joined us for a few days in spring , Front 7 tail 

Jake Kuzyk takes in the sunset after a days filming .

Enlighten Winter

This Winter here in Canada has been a great learning experience an good times .

Ive been lucky enough to be invited to film with Video Grass crew for there latest project Enlighten which will be out in September .

The crew Ive been spending time with are rad an very motivating to learn from an be inspiried by .
some of the riders I film with Ive looked up to most of my snowboard career so its a humbling experience to spend time with them an enjoy winter together .

As any winters go Ive had some up's an down's but for the most part its going great an everyday someting new an always fun times .

Here are some images form the last few weeks an the Englighten teaser to get you amped .
Be sure to get the movie when it comes out in September  .

Teaser  :  http://vimeo.com/37744008

Bald Eagle up the Squamish Valley .

Down day in Squamish hiking to Shannon Falls

Screen grab of a buddy 

Early mornings sled rest  before the sun is up .

Heading home after a good day , sunset .

Bryan fox front 5 nose 

Matt Belzile front 3 

Beauty Scenery .

Minor mishap for me resulted in visiting the Doc an some stitches .

Back in Canada .

Been back in Canada now for about a month ,always so nice coming back here an getting set up again.

Spent a couple days on Bowen Island when i arrived hanging out an getting the truck an sled dialed in

Been living up in Squamish an sledding out here a bunch over the last 3 weeks an things have been going well .

Good snow , good weather .

Planning to stay here for the most part of winter an travel around down to the US aswell .

Will throw up more images shortly 

Bowen  Island sunset .

Crew taking 5 .

Eero can ride his sled good !

Wedge ready to go .

John J speed test an final pat down.

Had a good session on this famous Whistler step down.

Eero Niemiela switch back 5.

Mikey Rencz front 7 .

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